Secret Origins (1986)

Start year: 1986

Issues in volume: 50

Secret Origins ran a total of four years and is most notable for explaining the post-Crisis origin of many DC Comics characters. While the series addressed many mainstream character origins, it also succeeded in bringing to light the back stories of more obscure DC characters such as Nightshade, Midnight and Doctor Occult. Secret Origins often put villains on center stage as well as heroes. Origin...

Publisher: DC Comics

Issues in this volume:

• #1 The Secret Origin of The Golden-Age Superman
• #2 Echoes Of Future Past!
• #3 Secret Origins Starring Captain Marvel
• #4 The Secret Origin of Firestorm, The Nuclear Man
• #5 The Crimson Avenger
• #6 Starring Halo and the Golden Age Batman
• #7 Starring Green Lantern & The Sandman
• #8 The Shadow of the Past; Dollman
• #9 The Secret Origin of the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy / The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Flash
• #10 "Tarry Till I Come Again"; "...and men shall call him Stranger"; "Revelations"; "Footsteps"
• #11 Ancient Histories; The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Hawkman
• #12 The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Fury; Challengers of the Unknown
• #13 Starring Nightwing, Johnny Thunder And The Whip"
• #14 The Secret Origin of the Suicide Squad
• #15 Death Like A Crown; The Secret Origin of the Spectre